TY - EJOU AU - Sun, Zhebin AU - Wang, Wei AU - Du, Mingxuan AU - Liang, Tao AU - Liu, Yang AU - Fan, Hailong AU - Li, Cuiping AU - Zhu, Xingxu AU - Li, Junhui TI - Ultrashort-Term Power Prediction of Distributed Photovoltaic Based on Variational Mode Decomposition and Channel Attention Mechanism T2 - Energy Engineering PY - 2025 VL - 122 IS - 6 SN - 1546-0118 AB - Responding to the stochasticity and uncertainty in the power height of distributed photovoltaic power generation. This paper presents a distributed photovoltaic ultra-short-term power forecasting method based on Variational Mode Decomposition (VMD) and Channel Attention Mechanism. First, Pearson’s correlation coefficient was utilized to filter out the meteorological factors that had a high impact on historical power. Second, the distributed PV power data were decomposed into a relatively smooth power series with different fluctuation patterns using variational modal decomposition (VMD). Finally, the reconstructed distributed PV power as well as other features are input into the combined CNN-SENet-BiLSTM model. In this model, the convolutional neural network (CNN) and channel attention mechanism dynamically adjust the weights while capturing the spatial features of the input data to improve the discriminative ability of key features. The extracted data is then fed into the bidirectional long short-term memory network (BiLSTM) to capture the time-series features, and the final output is the prediction result. The verification is conducted using a dataset from a distributed photovoltaic power station in the Northwest region of China. The results show that compared with other prediction methods, the method proposed in this paper has a higher prediction accuracy, which helps to improve the proportion of distributed PV access to the grid, and can guarantee the safe and stable operation of the power grid. KW - Distributed photovoltaic power; channel attention mechanism; convolutional neural network; bidirectional long short-term memory network DO - 10.32604/ee.2025.062218